Quote #2479
A big book is a big bore.
Quote #1025
If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was...
Quote #13567
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in...
Quote #24012
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological...
Quote #31950
Our children are here to stay, but our babies and toddlers and preschoolers are...
Quote #2712
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding...
Quote #25739
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they...
Quote #22776
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that...
Quote #7573
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Quote #34602
I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn’t interest me.